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• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

  Timothy Keller

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.

  David Wolfe

  Different, Filters, World

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

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• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Balance

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Boys, Self

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• There was a telemarketing job one summer in high school that I was rejected for. I still walk by the building that I actually had the interview in. It's still in New York, and I always think about that job and why I didn't get it.

  Noah Baumbach

  Summer, Jobs, New York

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• The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, People, World

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• Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Dedication, Isil

  "Obama, Jordanian king vow to continue campaign against ISIS". www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Suffering, Christ

  "The Cost of Discipleship (Discipleship and the Cross)". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (p. 84), 1937.

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• I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

  Leonard Susskind

  Atheism, Agents, Venture

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• The Stone the Builders Rejected.

  Jack London

  Tombstone, Stones, Builder

  Jack London (2014). “The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)”, p.42, BookRix

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• Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

  Robert Hughes

  Political, Intellectual, World

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, Knopf

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• I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Dream, Believe, Ambition

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• In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 179), 1956.

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• It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

  Voltaire

  Father, Book, Atheism

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• I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sunday, Church, Judgmental

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

  Freeman Dyson

  Paper, Impossible, Reviews

  Scientific American, Sept. 1958

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• God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Blessing, Light, Darkness

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• Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Defense, Development, World

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• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  Rene Descartes

  Ideas, Mind, Analysis

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• The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Order, Protection

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

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• My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

  Quentin Crisp

  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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• A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christ

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• There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Misunderstood, Hints

  Max Lucado (2006). “Everyday Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, Thomas Nelson

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• Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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